I work for Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Seattle, in the .NET product team, focusing on .NET, Azure and the Microsoft development platform. This blog is about technical tips and experiences about Software Architecture and Microsoft development technologies.

Year: 2013

—- [UPDATE January 2014]: Added two more client apps to ‘MyCompany Demo Apps’, the iPad and Android client applications developed in C# with Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android thanks to a partnership we made between Microsoft and Xamarin]. Get it from: https://github.com/xamarin/MyCompany/ —- At the Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event (Nov. 13th 2013), Microsoft used a set of demo…

What is this guide / eBook about? UPDATE – Dec.2013 This same Guide has been published now as free MS PRESS eBook, here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/11/13/free-ebook-net-technology-guide-for-business-applications.aspx — A few days ago (late June 2013, at BUILD) we released a new paper showing a global and broad picture of Microsoft development technologies for custom LOB applications. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/net/nettechnologyguidance The…

Related to the session I delivered at TechEd 2013 North America, I’m using a sample application we created called “MY CONFERENCES”. This is the session at TechEd U.S. (New Orleans): https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/DEV-B204#fbid=L6pa5lhw3Vn This sample application is really the v2.0 or evolution of the “MY EVENTS” sample application we created a few months ago, but we added…

Today, March 4th, 2013, Microsoft is announcing the availability of the final version (RTW) of Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, and a new roll up of the improvements to “Napa” since Preview 2. You can check that out at S. Somasegar’s blog (corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft), who…

I found this infographic in Microsoft. It is quite global and is lacking of a few important areas, but still, it is very interesting and up to date. It shows from a high level point of view what Microsoft is related to, whether it’s search, cloud, social, NUI, gaming, developer tools, phones, Windows, Kinect –…